Socialist Party of the Valencian Country

Socialist Party of the Valencian Country Partit Socialista del País Valencià
Secretary-General	Ximo Puig
Founded	1978
Headquarters	C/ Blanqueries, 4 Valencia, Valencian Community
Membership (2014)	17,230[1]
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Valencian Courts	27 / 99
Congress of Deputies	10 / 32 (Valencian seats)
Spanish Senate	8 / 18 (Valencian seats)
Provincial deputations	28 / 89 [2]
Local seats	1,832 / 5,784 [3]
Website
www.socialistesvalencians.org
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The Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (Valencian: Partit Socialista del País Valencià; Spanish: Partido Socialista del País Valenciano, PSPV–PSOE) is a social-democratic political party in the Valencian Community, and is a regional branch of the national Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

The PSPV was originally a small nationalist and leftist Valencian party, mostly confined to the academic world within the University of Valencia.^{[citation needed]} In 1978, they decided to merge with the much larger national PSOE, to which they integrated. Their name remains in the name of the Valencian branch of the PSOE, officially called PSPV-PSOE, even though it is usually reduced to PSOE only by the party itself. This Valencian branch of the PSOE, unlike their Catalan counterpart, does not have a record of having acted independently from the national executive of the Spanish-wide PSOE.^{[citation needed]}

History[]

The PSPV-PSOE was the ruling party in the Valencian Country from 1983 through 1995. The People's Party (PP) won the elections since 1995 until 2015, when the PSPV-PSOE won the elections and ended the 20 year tenure of the PP. The PSPV-PSOE remains the main opposition party of the PP from 1995 to date.

In their general meeting held in September 2008, the party was scheduled to officially drop the PSPV line in their name and change it to PSCV to adjust it to the official name of the territory (Comunitat Valenciana, CV)^[4] but, eventually, this proposal was discarded and the name was not changed.^[5] However, talk of a name change for the party keeps lingering on, as its new leader is said to support a different name in order to be in synch with the current Valencian situation.^[6] (for further information, see Names of the Valencian Community)

Electoral performance[]

Corts Valencianes[]

Corts Valencianes
Election	Votes	%	#	Seats	+/–	Leading candidate	Status in legislature
1983	982,567	51.41%	1st	51 / 89	—	Joan Lerma	Government
1987	828,961	41.28%	1st	42 / 89	9	Joan Lerma	Government
1991	860,429	42.85%	1st	45 / 89	3	Joan Lerma	Government
1995	804,463	33.98%	2nd	32 / 89	13	Joan Lerma	Opposition
1999	768,548	33.91%	2nd	35 / 89	3	Antoni Asunción	Opposition
2003	874,288	35.96%	2nd	35 / 89	0	Joan Ignasi Pla	Opposition
2007	838,987	34.49%	2nd	38 / 99	3	Joan Ignasi Pla	Opposition
2011	687,141	28.04%	2nd	33 / 99	5	Jorge Alarte	Opposition
2015	509,098	20.57%	2nd	23 / 99	10	Ximo Puig	Coalition
2019	643,909	24.21%	1st	27 / 99	4	Ximo Puig	Coalition

Cortes Generales[]

Cortes Generales
Election	Valencian Community
	Congress					Senate
	Votes	%	#	Seats	+/–	Seats	+/–
1977	678,429	36.33%	1st	13 / 29	—	8 / 12	—
1979	698,677	37.31%	1st	13 / 29	0	6 / 12	2
1982	1,118,354	53.11%	1st	19 / 29	6	9 / 12	3
1986	993,439	47.49%	1st	18 / 31	1	9 / 12	0
1989	878,377	41.46%	1st	16 / 31	2	9 / 12	0
1993	935,325	38.35%	2nd	12 / 31	4	4 / 12	5
1996	990,993	38.32%	2nd	13 / 32	1	3 / 12	1
2000	826,595	34.00%	2nd	12 / 32	1	3 / 12	0
2004	1,127,700	42.45%	2nd	14 / 32	2	3 / 12	0
2008	1,124,414	40.97%	2nd	14 / 33	0	3 / 12	0
2011	697,474	26.75%	2nd	10 / 33	4	3 / 12	0
2015	531,489	19.83%	3rd	7 / 32	3	2 / 12	1
2016	539,278	20.79%	3rd	6 / 33	1	0 / 12	2
2019 (Apr)	746,486	27.78%	1st	10 / 32	4	9 / 12	9
2019 (Nov)	700,159	27.60%	1st	10 / 32	0	6 / 12	3

European Parliament[]

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